Sarbendra Sarkar, Founder and Managing Director of Cygnett Hotels & Resorts Group has announced the appointment of Roberto Pelliccia as Vice President of Development & Operations – Asia and Africa and welcomes him to his team.
Roberto, an alumnus of Cornell School of Hotel Administration, has three decades of experience in the hospitality industry, primarily within operations, asset management, pre-opening and opening, re-branding and development.
His career has taken him on key assignments with a variety of hotel groups such as InterContinental, Hilton, Sun, Kerzner, SuperClubs, Meritus, Grace and Latitude.
Roberto’s first General Manager assignment was at Le Coco Beach Hotel in Mauritius with Kerzner International. After spending nine and a half years in Mauritius, Roberto moved to Jamaica with SuperClubs as General Manager of the Grand Lido Negril & Spa, an AAA 4-Diamond resort. He spent just over two years there, before joining Meritus Hotels & Resorts as GM of the Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort and Spa in Langkawi, Malaysia.
In July 2011, Roberto joined Grace Hotels Group, the hospitality subsidiary of the Libra Group, as Group Director of Operations for USA, Argentina, China, Greece, Panama and Thailand, before moving to The Latitude Hotels Group in October 2016 as CEO for Africa, his most recent assignment prior to Cygnett.
Based in Bangkok, Roberto is responsible for leading Cygnett’s business development and operations in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Currently the company has over 1,100 keys across 33 locations in India and Nepal, including 15 in pre-opening, and is looking for opportunities to expand to Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
